"So much?" The Jules couple were stunned.
One silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins, and Gray's monthly salary is only about two silver coins. As for Jula, the salary is slightly higher, but it is only about three silver coins. Unless you visit the rich or the lord occasionally, you will get some extra commissions. Ten silver coins are basically equivalent to their two-month salary.
"What do you want so much money for?" Gray frowned.
"The task is required. After the task is over, I will return it to you." Du Dian said earnestly.
Jula and Gray looked at each other and said helplessly: "Okay, it's your celebration fee, but you have to promise me that you won't use it for bad things."
Du Di'an breathed a sigh of relief. He also knew that the money was indeed a lot. The Jula couple could give him all because of his status as a guard. Otherwise, how could an ordinary child spend two months with his parents? Salary, and not saying why.
the next day.
With ten silver coins in his arms, Du Dian went out early in the morning and came to the Adventurer's Market in the southern district of the residents.
Whether it is a slum area, a residential area, or a commercial area, it is divided into four areas, east, west, north and south. Each area is extremely vast, and the Linkang Street where Du Di'an lives is located in the southeast area of the residential area. The so-called adventurer's market is a free trade market for civilians outside the chamber of commerce with a formal business license. The goods here are all materials found by civilians from the outer edge of the living area, near the giant wall.
In the outer edge, the nuclear radiation in the air is dense, and only some adventurers are willing to go. However, the adventurer profession often does not last for a long time. Generally, they retire after working a few times, and use the money they earn to support their eroded body and gradually age.
However, Du Dian doesn't have to worry about the nuclear radiation there. He checked the information. The set of black soft armor he received was made of lead. Lead is a metal with extremely high density, which can effectively resist radiation and can come and go at will. Close to the outer edge of the giant wall, after all, compared with the outside of the giant wall, the radiation in the outer edge is not worth mentioning at all.
However, although there is uniform protection, it will breathe the polluted air there, and the outer edge is too far from the living area. Hiring a carriage used to be a lot of money. In addition, there are animals lurking there that are eroded by radiation. , very dangerous, Du Dian was too lazy to waste time to go there in person.
After spending five copper coins in the carriage money, Du Di'an came to the adventurer's market. There were many carriages going around here, and it was very lively. The noise of hawking could be heard from a distance, and the carpets on the ground were full of All kinds of things, some are clothes and dolls made by others, some are stones of strange colors, and some are dried fish slices.
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Du Di'an walked along the aisle.
Half an hour later, Du Di'an finally found a few rough sulphur ore and saltpeter like white ice crystals in front of a booth. As for the charcoal powder, he could make it himself without wasting money to buy it.
The boss is a middle-aged man with dark complexion and a dry figure. His hair is disheveled, his eyes are sunken, and there are some red spots on his hands, as if he has contracted some kind of disease. Although he is covered by long sleeves, when he raises his hand, Still inadvertently revealed.
When Du Di'an saw it, he knew that the radiation content in this person's body was extremely high.
After some haggling, Du Dian finally bought all the saltpeter and sulfur ore in his booth at the price of one silver coin and twenty copper coins. Among them, the saltpeter was more valuable and cost one silver coin.
"This sulphur ore has to be extracted by yourself. After the extracted sulphur is ground into powder, it should only be enough for a sachet of **. In addition, when you go out to scavenge waste, you are not allowed to carry other things with you except food and basic weapons. There is not much black powder brought in, so let's buy this first for the time being." Du Di thought with confidence.
"Little guy, these things are quite heavy. Did you call for a carriage, or did your adult come to help you carry them? Do you want me to carry them for you?" The black and thin middle-aged man said with a smile after receiving the money.
"No." Du Dian picked it up and lifted the linen bag. The heavy weight of about 20 pounds inside was as light as nothing in his hands. He turned and left, and continued to look for grinding tools.
The black and thin middle-aged man stared at him, a little stunned.
Not long after, Du Dian bought some basic tools for alchemy at other booths. In the eyes of ordinary people, the role of these tools is naturally not related to alchemy, but tools for ordinary work, such as the stone wheel used by Du Di'an to grind sulfur, which is generally used by doctors to grind medicine.
After buying almost everything, Du Di'an went to the market, and by the way, he knew what materials were there. If you need it in the future, you can come here to buy it directly. At noon, Du Di'an turned around and left, ready to go back to eat.
"Boss, you can sell this broken stone to me for a copper coin, please!" Suddenly, a young boy's voice sounded.
Du Di'an turned his head and saw a burly boy half a head shorter than himself standing in front of a booth next to him, holding a small linen bag in his hand, and at the moment he was holding a rough black stone the size of a fist.
"No, no!" The stall owner, a short and thin young man, shook his head repeatedly and said, "This is iron ore. Although the weight is quite small, it sells at least two copper coins."
"Boss, even if this is iron ore, it's just ore, not iron. You can't extract much from such a small piece. You can make a lot of money with a copper coin." The strong boy changed his strategy and lobbied: "Also, so A small piece is not needed in the smelting factory at all, and no one will come to buy it, you can still make money by selling it, and no one will buy it, you can only lose it."
The short and thin young man was persuaded by him, hesitant, and finally said: "Okay."
The burly boy grinned, paid quickly, put the black stone in the linen bag, and turned away with the bag on his back.
Du Dian retracted his gaze and was about to turn away. He turned around in vain and looked at the wrist of the sturdy boy carrying the linen bag, where there was a tiny black hook pattern.
"Alchemy apprentice?" Du Dian was a little stunned. He didn't expect to meet an alchemist apprentice here. In Rothyard's notes, he learned about the alchemist's way of life and some habits. The most impressive thing is that every An alchemist will have an exclusive tattoo pattern on his body, which is the symbol of an alchemist and one of the basic ways to get started!
The method of tattooing here is very ancient. Use plants or medicinal powder to mix black water, and inject it into the skin through a needle. The pattern outlined is arbitrary, even a small dot or a crooked line without a shape is considered a sign.
Although not only alchemists, but also nobles and the Holy See of Light mastered tattooing methods, but their tattoos were different from alchemists in that they would never use "black" as a pigment.
Once the black tattoo is tattooed, whether it is a noble or a member of the Holy See of Light, it will be treated as an alchemist. It can be said that this is an absolute proof!
Similarly, if you don't have black tattoos on your body, even if you are a real alchemist, you will not be recognized by other colleagues.
Du Dian glanced at the direction where the sturdy boy was leaving, his eyes flickered slightly, and finally he carried the linen bag and quietly chased after him.